Daily Briefing
Deep buzz for the content-deprived
Every weekday, while you get showered and dressed, we pluck these dewy- fresh, breaking stories from the info-clogged byways of the datasphere. Pour yourself a cup of coffee and stoke up on everything you need to know, or at least enough to fake it.
If you grew up thinking there were nine planets and were shocked when Pluto was demoted five years ago, get ready for another surprise. There may be nine after all, and Jupiter may not be the largest...
The anniversay will probably be observed in silence. A week from Tuesday, when the Supreme Court returns from its midwinter break and hears arguments in two criminal cases, it will have been five years since Justice Clarence Thomas has spoken during a court argument...
A court in Pakistan issued an arrest warrant Saturday for former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in connection with the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, a public prosecutor told CNN...
With the old pharaoh gone, the hunt for his gold begins. A senior Western intelligence official tells The Daily Beast that European spy agencies have detected efforts in recent weeks by former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and his family to shift their assets, believed to total in the billions and perhaps tens of billions of dollars, to bank accounts and investments where they cannot be easily traced in a post-Mubarak Egypt...
Thousands of secessionists protested in Yemen today in an example of how disparate movements across the Middle East are tapping the anti-regimne fervor for their own disparate aims...
Demonstrations in Algeria inspired by popular protests in Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East appeared to have been largely quelled Saturday by Algerian security forces, which prevented demonstrators from embarking on a planned march through the capital...
Egypt is beginning a new political era after mass protests forced President Hosni Mubarak to stand down following 30 years in power. Follow live updates...
President Hosni Mubarak told the Egyptian people Thursday that he would delegate more authority to his vice president, Omar Suleiman, but that he would not resign his post, contradicting earlier reports that he would step aside and surprising hundreds of thousands of demonstrators gathered to hail his departure from the political scene...
Labor strikes and worker protests that flared across Egypt on Wednesday affected post offices, textile factories and even the government’s flagship newspaper, providing a burst of momentum to protesters demanding the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak, even as his government pushed back with greater force against the opponents’ demands...
